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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Now, on a bit of a side note, remember all those conservatives complaining about how Nate Silver's numbers were obviously biased? Well, it turned out he correctly predicted the outcome of every state in the electoral college again (assuming Ohio and Florida hold up). That's in terms of black-and-white, one candidate or the other, not closeness to actual results.
He did a little worse in the Senate races, though–it would appear that he picked North Dakota and Nevada incorrectly–in favor of the Republicans. That's right, for all the complaining by the right about how biased Silver's predictions were, he was actually a little more to the right than the actual election.
@Trivialis: And, booze isn't taxed, at all? Nor is it tested for at the side of the road and illegal to drive over the limit? As you can test for cannabis use... your point is?
Yes, there are psychoactive elements, but, I'd rate alcohol to be less healthy, overall, than cannabis for the sheer damage it does by its availability and social acceptance.
edited 6th Nov '12 9:44:26 PM by Euodiachloris
Lung cancer is bad, of course, and I don't like smoking and drinking personally. But it tends to not threaten other people immediately like drinking and driving does.

Morally, no. The problem is pragmatic: if you tax or regulate it very much at all it gets undercut by the black market and nothing useful actually gets done. The same thing happened in Canada with cigarettes, and those were already legal and had a fraction of the kind of tax marijuana would get.
edited 6th Nov '12 9:42:26 PM by Pykrete